India's much-loved destination litfest, the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival returns to London for its seventh edition. The festival honours the prolific and iconoclastic author Khushwant Singh's ...

The academic world has seen a shift in how translation students approach the translation process. Machine Translation Post-Edition (MTPE) is seeing rising client demand, and technologies promise to ...

Building on Trinh T. Minh–ha’s notion of 'Speaking nearby' in film making, in this ethnographic writing workshop, we explore the notion of “writing with…”. Using prompts from Narayan’s Alive in ...

The moral and humanitarian obligation to provide protection to people fleeing persecution, conflict, and human rights violations is crucial for democracies around the world. As democracies in a region ...

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The SOAS Research Ethics Policy sets out the ethical principles which staff, students and other researchers are expected to follow when conducting research under the auspices of SOAS. The policy, ...

The SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies was launched in June 2018 thanks to the generous donation from a Parsi benefactor, Mr Shapoor Mistry, in the name of his father, Mr ...

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The AU's 2019 Transitional Justice Policy marked a milestone in addressing historical violations, but implementation has been inconsistent. This seminar explores how grassroots actors and localized ...

Explore the highlights of SOAS experts in the media discussing key issues and topics this month. For more updates, follow our SOAS press account on BlueSky (@soaspress.bsky.social). Research Fellow Dr ...

The transatlantic slave trade displaced millions of Africans, with lasting historical and economic impacts. Reparations debates center on recognition and redress. This seminar will discuss why and how ...

The development of Taiwanese labour unions has long been shaped by the island's political history. Since 1949, the state encouraged unionisation to manage labour unrest but imposed strict controls ...